I really like drawing and sketching...?

Question

what are some good things to draw and sketch when i'm just bumming around with my sketchpad?

i usually just do people and trees, but i need some new ideas!

Answer 1

Just make a scribble on a piece of paper and try to make something figurative from the abstract lines, like a dragon, a baby or a table. I have done this many times with friends and also by myself. The most wonderful things emerge from these scribbles! It does not only train your inventiveness but also your ability to sketch! Two birds with one stone!
Have fun.

Answer 2

what always helps me when I have a drawing block is to get a BIG sheet of paper and scribble all over it. No design just let my hand flow over the paper. Don't even look while scribbling. Then I go back and pick out what might look like something. It might be a face or a dog , or a building. anything. I do that over the whole paper where I might have 20-25 little pictures of what I have found in my scribbles. Then, I take another big sheet and go slower, just moving my hand with the pencil around. Then I look and see what big picture i can find. I did this with my nephew when he was about 4. He thought he coouldn't draw. His big picture had an almost perfect picture of Barney (The dinasaur). The next step is to scribble. again on a big piece of paper, but with something definate in mind. Again, i look at the scribble then try to pick out the picture I was thinking about. By this time, I am in the mood to draw for real. it is surprising the results of some of these scribble pictures.

Answer 3

Oooooh good answer kool_aid. Yes, as an artist I found biology class to be a lot of fun because I got to draw!

Eyes, hands, and especially feet are the hardest things to draw/sketch. Practice those things and everything else will be that much easier. Totally bored? Draw your other hand, maybe your feet in your fav shoes.

I find that too many people try to 'copy' something that there, great discipline, but forces you to have unwarranted expectations which can lead to frustration (ie- here's a pic of Keira Knightly, i'll copy that- if it doesn't look like her you will hate it and that can lead to hating drawing). Landscapes are great for learning shadows and perspective treatments, but don't forget to get abtract on things at times to explore landscapes as feelings, not just trees and passerbys.

When I am in an 'artist block' I tend to get music going and try to draw what I hear (abstract or not). Or I strip away colors... I once painted canvas' with just black and white paint to point where i was so sick of the grayscale that any drop of color would be "new" to me. it was about 3 months worth. Did I reinvent color to myself? Yes, in a way I did. It help me strip away common conventions (shadows are grey, trees are green, lemons are yellow, etc.). It opened my eyes to see color for the sake of just being different than the other color it's next to. So going back to drawing/sketching...

Sometimes it's worth it to write down an idea while your are bumming around, later on turn that idea into a picture using just what you remember- that will help get your feelings about it going at the same time.

Answer 4

I like to draw and sketch too. It takes a lot of practice to get good with people's faces, so I sometimes just work on doing eyes, or lips....fruit is a good object to begin with. It's amazing the colors in an apple, yellow, red, orange, green, maybe some brown. It's fun to experiment. The possibilities with flowers is endless. Try concentrating on one bloom and really study how it is formed in the center. Have fun.

Answer 5

There's always an opportunity out there to learn new ways of drawing. Try meticulous drawings of twigs, leaves, and so on. This, of course, will require a great deal of patience but will help increase your apptitude for proportion and variety of line. Maybe try using silverpoint (drawing with silver) if you find this method suits you. If you like more gestural drawing, try drawing people from the inside out. This is known as figurative drawing and requires you to constantly move your drawing tools, i.e. pencils, charcoal. Rather than giving your subject a form with outlines, use the constant movement of your pencil to give your subject mass on the surface of their skin drawing from variations of light; remember, no outlines! If you just want to be silly, draw a scene without ever looking at your paper and do it without ever letting your pencil off your paper; the results will be really funny when you try to draw your friends and family. When you try new techniques, you'll find that what you want to draw will change and once you begin getting proficient with them, try using some of the techniques together. Have fun!

Answer 6

Try the rooms of your home you are always in, like this one for example. draw the best veiw in the sky you have seen. Yes, you can draw this veiw in black and white, it will still turn out. Some times when I'm bored one of the things I do is draw. Another thing I do is sew. Sometimes I will sew what I drew on a pillow or a shirt. That is why the rooms in your home can be a very good thing to draw.

Answer 7

Heres a idea for the bumming around periods all us artists have once in a while, Try putting your tv on a channel where there is only a static picture then try drawing something you think you see you will be surprised at the end result and on what you think you see too, or even try staring into the pattern on your net curtains and draw something you see but is not part of the pattern on the nets

Answer 8

I love to draw and sketch! Usually when I am bored and am feeling like drawing something, I usually draw my stuffed animals. I have alot of those. Plus I like to draw animals. I have alot of drawings that I've drawn about my pet parakeet.

Answer 9

Don't draw anything cliche, that's all I got to say. Wait, maybe some monsters. That yell at clouds. Yeah, that's rad.

Answer 10

Animals, inanimate objects, the closest thing you see when you look up from your pad. And draw every type of person you can think of.